Hi Everyone. I have a morphed folder issue that I haven't dealt with before. Can anyone help?

I have 3 domain controllers. They were not syncing correctly and I was receiving Journal wrap errors. In attempt to restore this, I set the "Enable Journal wrap automatic restore" to 1 in the registry and restarted. I must have missed a step here because now I have "Morphed folders on each DC. I have 2 example policies below and explain how they react on each DC. My question basically boils down to this: What is the best procedure for "merging" these folders together? Since some GPs are valid in the Policies folder and other GPs are also valid in the "morphed folders," how do I go about combining these?

Is this clear as mud? Details below.

DC1Policies - 31 items - with today's dates

Policies_NTFRS_002a9f3b - 47 items with older dates

Opening GP on DC1, allows me to see all GP objects for the domain. However, if I look at a known "old policy", (ending in FFOC) it will tell me "the system cannot find the file specified." Looking at the details of this GP, the unique ID (FF0C) is NOT present in the "Policies" folder, but it IS present in the "Policies_NTFRS_002a9f3b" folder. This makes sense why I am getting this error.

If I do the same thing on DC1 and look at another GP (2CF7), it will open just fine and not give me the error message above. This GP unique ID is in the Policies folder.

DC2Policies - 31 items with older dates

Policies_NTFRS_002a9f3b - 47 items with today's date

On DC2, GP (2CF7) is in the Policies folder and will open fine in GP manager. GP (FF0C) will not open and gives me "the file cannot find the file specified." The Unique ID is in the Policies_NTFRS_002a9f3b folder.

DC3Policies - 31 items - with older dates

Policies_NTFRS_002a9f3b - 47 items with today's date

On DC3, GP (2CF7) is in the policies folder and will open fine in GP manager. GP (FF0C) will not open and give me "the file cannot find the file specified." The Unique ID is in the Policies_NTFRS_002a9f3b folder

Well, I was able to get this resolved. I ended up renaming the morphed folders and waited for replication to the other DCs. Then once I verified replication was happening correctly, I renamed the morphed folders to the correct name (Policies, scripts, etc) and let them replicate again. Then I clicked on each policy in GP Management and verified that it could read the details properly. 3 of the policies were missing, so I copied/pasted them from a backup. Now everything is back to normal.

Darren, Thanks for the tip and link. I'll store that away in case I need it in the future. Thanks again!

I'm stuck on Step 4 where I should append the morphed directory in
\\<FQDN>\SYSVOL\<FQDN>
with _old. When I do so, even when I run Windows Explorer as Administrator while signed in as a Domain Admin, I get a Folder Access Denied error claiming I need more permissions to make changes to the folder. Did you run into this?

EDIT: While I couldn't do it there I did have luck renaming that folder from C:\Windows\SYSVOL\SYSVOL\<FQDN>\ on my PDCe domain controller. Seems to be replicating ok.